As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it's pretty hard to keep track. I've been browsing for about a month now, here's a list of popular communities I've subscribed to that others would find interesting!

Not many of these were noticeable while browsing communities so you may have missed some of these. I've roughly ranked these based on which I'd spend the most time on in each category.

Also note that I would add Kbin communities as well, but federation between Lemmy and Kbin is still not working well, so right now this post is for Lemmy communities only!

General Discussion

Humor & Memes

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world
!technology@lemmy.ml
!privacyguides@lemmy.one
!privacy@lemmy.ml
!linux@lemmy.ml
!singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml
!android@lemdro.id
!technews@radiation.party NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it's useful to browse.

Pictures & Videos

Movies & TV

Video Games

And that's it. Whew. Obviously I might have missed some, but these are the most interesting communities for me.

Interested in finding more communities? Check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to android@lemdro.id, updated link

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn't matter where I subscribe to "games" the posts should be the same.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.

[–] gelberhut@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are different communities. You can subscribe any of them from any instance, but they are not the same.

Like john@gmail.com and john@outlook.com are different emails, and you can mail any of them using your email provider.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is stupid imho. I don't want to sub to 10 different /c/movies or even 2 different /c/nba. Mark my words you're going to see a consolidation here if this takes off and you're going to lose the federation appeal that people want (I couldn't care less just want a Reddit alternative). Already I've unsubbed from communities to simply sub to the biggest one.

Let's also ignore there's an open issue from 2 years ago because no one apparently thought or cared of the scenario that some of us actually like a unified identity online and yet you can't port your account across the fediverse.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

[–] gelberhut@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Not sure about "stupid", but agree - most probably we will see consolidation in the future. This is rather usual scenario in general.

[–] Zeth0s@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is so important for you to be so much outraged, I guess it is time for you to either learn to code and open a PR, or to pay someone to do it for you!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know how to code don't have the time. It's potential I may look into it. Doesn't change the fact that it's two glaring issues that weren't thought through and there's many more that have been brought up.

[–] Zeth0s@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you know the reason those issues are still opened. There are only 2 paid developers for the whole thing, backend, front end, Android app... Everyone else, as you, don't have time. We need to accept it and live with it

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You know I'm on this platform too? It's completely acceptable to be critical and bring up those flaws without a need to make excuses. I understand there may be mitigating reasons that doesn't make it more ok. Also, it is not "up to me alone" to fix these issues.

I am simply highlighting glaring concerns and I encourage everyone else to also do so. The alternative is to do as you say and "just accept it" which quite frankly is a shit way to live life.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that you're angry the new thing doesn't work exactly the same as the thing you were used to. But take a deep breath, and remember they are in fact different things with their own pros and cons. Everything's changing at a rapid rate. Some features you want will make it in, some features you want probably won't, but there are ways to respectfully make and contribute to feature requests and have some small part in guiding the project in the direction you'd like to see.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Who's angry? Lol. Concerned.

[–] Tilted@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I find it helps to think the name of a community includes the originating server name